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Lamp with base in the form of a bear

Lamp with base in the form of a bear

Chinese

Lamp with wide, shallow, straight-sided dish receptacle for oil, raised on a faceted stem with base in the form of a ferocious bear with plump body and humped back seated on a high domed pedestal base; red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald green glaze over molded decoration, the glaze showing silvery iridescence on the surface from burial; the underside of base unglazed.

Earthenware with green lead glaze

Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE

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